Laura Salisbury

Samuel Beckett (eBook, PDF)

Laughing Matters, Comic Timing

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Produktbeschreibung

Reads Beckett's comic timing as part of a post-war ethics of representationSamuel Beckett is a funny writer. He is also an author whose work is taken to respond ethically to the unspeakable seriousness of the post-Holocaust situation. How can these two statements sit together?Ranging widely over Beckett's fiction, drama, and critical writings, and including readings of Murphy, the Trilogy, Waiting for Godot, Endgame, the late prose, and the late plays, the book demonstrates that it is through Beckett's comic timing that we can understand the double gesture of his art: the ethical obligation to represent the world how it is while, at the same time, opening up a space for how it ought to be.Key Features:* Presents innovative readings of the comedy found in Beckett's fiction, drama and critical writings* Spans Beckett's entire oeuvre, using published and unpublished sources* Engages with recent and contemporary philosophical approaches to literature, including work by Derrida, Badiou, Levinas, and Adorno* Makes a unique contribution to theoretical work on comedy and laughter* Provides a rigorous introduction to the theoretical debates surrounding the relationship between modernist literature and a post-war ethics of representation

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748647491
• Artikelnr.: 38224461

Autorenporträt

Dr Laura Salisbury is RCUK Research Fellow in Science, Technology, and Culture at Birkbeck, University of London. She works on modernist and contemporary literature and on the relationship between science, philosophy and culture. Her major new research project is a study of the relationship between neurological conceptions of language, modernism, and modernity.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Human Humour
Fun and Trembling
'That's not moving. That's moving'
Laughing Matters
Chapter One. Critical Joking: The Early Prose
Superiority, Sarcasm, Scholarship
The Loutishness of Learning
Diminishing Laughing Returns
Art vs. Book-Keeping
S/M: Scholarship and Mimicry
Critical Timing
Chapter Two. Gagging in the Trilogy
Gagging for It
Partial Incorporation
An Obligation to Express
Tiring Desire
Toilet Training, Resistant Material
Nihil in Intellectu
Chapter Three. Power Playing in Endgame
Perhaps
Unhappiness: Nothing Funnier
Playing for Time
The Play of the Audience
Just Play
Dialectics at a Standstill
Chapter Four. Comic Tremors: The Late Prose
Embers and Ashes
Imagination at Wit's End
Ill Saying, Ill Said
Ill Seeing
Chapter Five. Slapstick Echoes: The Late Plays
Limping Gags
Deadpan Demands
'Kindly Tune Accordingly'
'Like Something out of Beckett'
Conclusion
Works Cited.